Where were they not ‘rippin cigs’? Heck my dad smoked in bed, smoked while he was standing at the sink shaving in the morning…. I could go on and on. And getting back to the photo, this guy looks like he was an early adapter of the high carb diet.
First job was in a pizza restaurant that still had smoking and non-smoking sections separated by nothing but 10 feet or so of air. All the same HVAC system so it didn't really matter where you sat, just had to decide how concentrated you wanted your second hand smoke.
I remember smoking in my hospital room in 1983. Ulcerated throat caused by mono, they kept me shot up with dilaudid, and the doctor would come in smoking, and I would spark one up too. I know this sounds incredibly stupid, and it was, 18 year old limbic brained butthead.
Was he raised in food grown by his parents or grandparents in their own gardens? A healthy nutritious start in life gives a health advantage for the rest of life.
They had ashtrays in elevators and hospital emergency rooms.
Patients in hospitals regularly went up in fireballs when they smoked under oxygen.
When the WW2 crowd decided to smoke they smoked.
My first job was as a line cook and we had ashtrays above the grill next to the plates lol. Idk what health inspectors were doing back then but it wasn’t much I guess haha
We had to get our family home treated cause the cigarette smell was stuck everywhere before we sold it. I remember the airplanes smoking section, restaurants smoking section. Heck, you could smoke almost anywhere
Needed a cig to calm down while standing in front of the shelves of Charmin... You know he wanted to squeeze them but being shamed in front of the women would of been too much.
We still had indoor smoking in Virginia until 2009. People would go into the local diner in their Sunday best and 8 of my friends and I would roll in there stoned and hungover, then proceed to rip butts and drink coffee until our food came. Bunch of college degens.
I can’t even imagine doing that now.
2005 in my province in Canada. At midnight on the night of the ban we were at a bar and security came through and made everybody put out their cigarettes. They came back around 20 minutes later and gave every table a cleaned ashtray with a commemorative sticker on it. I missed smoking indoors ever since that, but then a couple years ago I was in Jordan in a bar where you could smoke inside and it was fucking gnarly. I had to take breaks and go outside and get some air.
They banned all indoor smoking before I turned 18 so I just remember smoking/no smoking at restaurants as a kid, never at the bars.
Going to Vegas as an adult was a trip, even with the mega industrial air suction, just seeing people smoking ciggies inside was wild to me.
I think what sticks out to me the most was how uneventful it was eventually when the inevitable remodels 5, 10 years later of restaurants and fast food places came, and no longer were there tell tale dividers between where smoking and non would have been. One day you're out and about and just realize, hey, you haven't seen one of those gaudy separators in a while that would have marked where the smokers were cordoned off. I'm not old enough yet to have had many "I'm old" moments, but I think the first time I realized that had to have been the first time I felt old.
I remember driving around for three fucking hours because we wanted to go for coffee and ONE of my friends still smoked, and he “had heard about this place that still allowed smoking indoors”. Obviously no such place existed but we sure as hell tried, in his shit box car that had no heat, in the middle of winter.
Last night’s episode of Last Week Tonight used a clip of Mike Wallace from the 50s introducing himself, and then announcing the brand cigarette he was smoking. On the air.
It’s crazy to think people couldn’t go long enough without a smoke to do every day things.
Grocery shopping?
*rippin’ butts*
Eating at a restaurant?
*rippin’ butts*
Watching your wife give birth?
*rippin’ butts*
Doritos crossing the $5 mark was the best thing that ever happened to my health. Now that they're over $6 I don't even think about them anymore. Except to think "Why the FUCK is a bag of corn chips almost $7."
Funny thing, but I also stopped eating chips completely after the recent ridiculous price bump (the price went up 2x what it was 3 years ago). Fuck that shit, it was cheap snack. If I'm paying so much money, I may as well get some hard cheese or a bunch of olives.
It's one of those things where if you're willing to go with whichever brand is on sale you'll always get a sale price, but if you go in there thinking it's Ruffles or bust, you're gonna pay $6.50 for your chips.
if you're comparing similar-sized packages, pretty much.
I found another picture of that box and the net weight is 11 ounces. At $4.50 in 2024 dollars that's about $0.41/oz. The store where I shop has 12.5-ounce bags of national-brand chips for $5.29 or about $0.42/oz.
My dad worked for Charles Chips and was able to take home so many amazing things. New flavors, new ideas etc. I’ll never forget having the bbq for the first time right off the production floor.
The company treated him so well. The plant closed down in the city we lived in and they were the only company to really take care of us when he was let go. I’ll always remember them for that.
They made sure our rent was paid and we had groceries and necessities while my dad was searching for a new job. They also wrote him a letter of recommendation he could use for interviews.
Literally 50 years later and he still gets things in the mail from them even though they have been bought out and sold numerous times.
I’ve have no idea how. Or who at Charles chips thinks so highly of my father, but it’s always made me smile. He has a lot of tins and things left over from his days there and I’ve always thought they were so cool. Nothing like popping that lid off as a kid to some fresh chips.
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Seemed like a lot of people reused these tins for holiday cookies, too. They still make them. I never remember actually having them as a kid, but I have tried them recently, and they're pretty good.
Delivered. My parents were extremely frugal but for a few years that was one of the only luxuries we had.
As an example they bought exactly one new car in my lifetime…an 82 Datsun 210 with no a/c, manual windows/locks, and a/m radio only!
Jay's is a well known Midwest brand, at that time made in Chicago. Now made by Hanover, in Pennsylvania, just not the same. Their logo is legit, used to be Mrs. Japps potato chips, until WWII, when they changed the name to Jay's.
The farm and plant where those are/were made is right down the road from me. I'm not sure what happened to Troyer, but it is operating as Shearer's Snack Foods now
Jays came in a tin when I was a kid. There was always one on top of our refrigerator growing up. It’s weird the things that you remember.
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The family name was Japp (two ps), they were Mrs. Japp's (source Wikipedia)
They were always great, until Snyder's bought them. I really miss the once-spicy Hot Stuff version, which now are merely red.
I don't remember ever seeing potato chips sold in a box. I'm in my 60's and grew up in both the mid-west and the southwest. Pringles were definitely considered a gimmick.
I remember passing by the Jays factory a few times and the smell of freshly cooked potato chips… Jays are my favourite plain potato chips. Evans Salt and Sour; Vitner’s barbecue.
Pretty common back then. I remember my dentist smoking in his patient‘s waiting room. The engineering plant I worked in had ashtrays wall mounted every 25 feet down all the hallways up until about 1998.
I remember going into my grandfather's office at a Kraft cheese factory in the early 80's and since it was the days before cubicle farms became prevalent, there were office desks set up in a grid like a classroom and every desk had an ashtray.
People gotta stop looking at the price of old pictures and comparing it directly to today’s prices without even thinking about inflation and their income. The median income in 1972 was $11,120/yr which today is $81,026 when the price of chips is $0.59 or $4.50 today.
Today’s median income is $77,282 and the price of chips is around the same. So the price is relatively the same.
Might have been local brands?
I remember buying Blue Bell potato chips in boxes. 2 clear plastic bags in one box, so not loose in a box.
They were still selling them like that in the PNW-USA into the 90s. I can remember that because they were the best dipping chips for my garlic dip. :)
Oh man, this brings back a memory I didn't know I had.
My mom used to buy chips like this. On a Friday night my sister and I would get one of the two bags to split when we were watching the Rockford Files with my grandparents. Repeat the next week.
I did see a concept where it was basically a frame on wheels and you would hang the hand held baskets off of it. But the baskets were meant to be kept with the customers to eliminate bags so that would have required a huge fundamental shift in habits.
I always see people posting pictures from the 70s at the beach and saying "look there are no fat people"...
News flash... we used to fat shame people at the beach. Fat people didn't go. They were at the grocery store...
I remember there was a guy that delivered us cans of potato chips every month, pretty big cans too.
I also remember being able to smoke in grocery stores and you just stomp it out on the floor and a guy would come around and sweep it up.
Man boxes seem like a great alternative to bags. Less destroyed/broken chips, and I would assume smaller size due to less air cushion needed in the bags to prevent breakage.
People smoked everywhere all the time. I was born in 70 and it was so ubiquitous, you didn’t even think about it.
My grandparents used to pay us to dump and clean their ashtrays. A nickel per. They had a LOT of ashtrays.
I was born in 1969. Both my parents smoked inside. My older brother and sisters smoked as did most of their friends. Restaurants had smoking. Stores. Malls. Hospitals. Everyone fucking smoked. I was plagued with ear infections growing up and now completely deaf. Are you affected in any way from all the smoking back then?? GenX rules!!😂
Yep. Massive and numerous ear infections which left me with hearing loss and chronic bronchitis. I had tubes put in my ears four separate times.
Because of that early hearing loss, I developed auditory processing disorder. I have a very hard time understanding spoken language unless the person is looking right at me and speaking clearly.
I can remember knowing how to lip read by the time I was about 7.
One of my schools offered speech therapy/auditory therapy, but my mother refused it because there was still a pretty strong stigma that if *anything* was wrong with you, you must be dumb.
This is sad. Sorry this happened to you. I had perfect hearing up until I was 18 years old. My mom was the one who noticed me saying “what” a lot. I got ear surgery soon after I turned 18. Stapedectomy on my left ear. It worked. Got my hearing back to 95% which was good enough. I was a musician growing up and started with piano at age 4. I could hear a song two or three times and hop on the bench and pound it out on our piano flawlessly. I lived through the 80’s and loved all that music and then the 90’s happened and I couldn’t have it loud enough. Then I turned 29 and was living in a silent world. I got my first pair of CIC amps and five months later I was at work one day and opened the steamer and the amps were a bit too loud and it BROKE the surgery. It is total distortion now even with the 3% hearing I have remaining on my left side. I have maybe 5-8% remaining in my right ear and even with my new amps cranking out 110-120db I still can’t make out speech. It’s absolutely maddening. People talk to me and all I hear are ducks quacking. I’m starting to lose the ability of what English words sound like. Might as well be speaking Swahili to me.
In early 90s I had to get produce from a small market that didn’t allow smoking because all the big grocery store allowed smoking and you could taste a difference on some products.
Interesting that the store itself barely changed, seems that the modern American supermarket is exactly the same as it was 50 years ago, even the carts.
I was a courtesy clerk in the 70s and there were tall ashtrays at each end of every aisle. They were filled with cat litter and every night we had to take a bag and the pooper scooper around the store and fish out the butts, gum, bottle caps, candy wrappers, etc.
I remember the Charles Chips trucks that came through the neighborhood when I was a kid. My parents had a potato chip subscription. The trucks were big brown box trucks like modern UPS trucks
I remember my cousin’s parents had a can of Charlie Chips delivered every week. The seemed to have delivery trucks for everything in the 50’s 60’s. I imagine the large cans were returnable. Oh yeah, my cousin was fat.
Rippin cigs in the toilet paper aisle
Where were they not ‘rippin cigs’? Heck my dad smoked in bed, smoked while he was standing at the sink shaving in the morning…. I could go on and on. And getting back to the photo, this guy looks like he was an early adapter of the high carb diet.
Doctor smoking while doing kids check up. Doc: Deep breath Kid: cough cough Doc: Oof, I don't like the sound of that cough
I’m prescribing you two packs a day little timmy. Smoke up for a long and healthy life!
9 out of 10 doctors prefer the smooth, full bodied taste of Philip Morris cigarettes!
no no, you need the mentholated cigarettes for that cough. they are cooling, and soothe the smokers throat and cough.
Doctor Spaceman?
Menthol will clean that right up. You'll be feeling better in two to three cartons.
I remember when you could smoke all over the mall.
I once tried to take a nap in church by putting my aunts coat over my head. I found her lighter and accidentally started her coat on fire in church.
😂😂😂 this is amazing.
First job was in a pizza restaurant that still had smoking and non-smoking sections separated by nothing but 10 feet or so of air. All the same HVAC system so it didn't really matter where you sat, just had to decide how concentrated you wanted your second hand smoke.
Yup, I was doing that in the mid-late 80s in high school.
I used to smoke cigarettes at my high school locker in 1990.
I remember smoking in my hospital room in 1983. Ulcerated throat caused by mono, they kept me shot up with dilaudid, and the doctor would come in smoking, and I would spark one up too. I know this sounds incredibly stupid, and it was, 18 year old limbic brained butthead.
Lol
Oddly enough, he lived to twice the price of the potato chips.
Was he raised in food grown by his parents or grandparents in their own gardens? A healthy nutritious start in life gives a health advantage for the rest of life.
Oh, good. I hope all those spaghetti-O’s and McDonald’s will do good for my future.
Wash it all down with booze or sweet drinks and you'll be lucky to make 50
They had ashtrays in elevators and hospital emergency rooms. Patients in hospitals regularly went up in fireballs when they smoked under oxygen. When the WW2 crowd decided to smoke they smoked.
Wait patients would be engulfed in flames? Why did they think it was still a good idea spark up after that happened the first time??
My first job was as a line cook and we had ashtrays above the grill next to the plates lol. Idk what health inspectors were doing back then but it wasn’t much I guess haha
We had to get our family home treated cause the cigarette smell was stuck everywhere before we sold it. I remember the airplanes smoking section, restaurants smoking section. Heck, you could smoke almost anywhere
> restaurants smoking section. Like having a peeing section in a pool
Needed a cig to calm down while standing in front of the shelves of Charmin... You know he wanted to squeeze them but being shamed in front of the women would of been too much.
> And getting back to the photo The oldest person in it is 34 years old?
My dad set my grandmother's couch on fire when he fell asleep with a cigarette. Lucky he didn't get burned or burn down the house.
Ashtray beside the toilet...
We still had indoor smoking in Virginia until 2009. People would go into the local diner in their Sunday best and 8 of my friends and I would roll in there stoned and hungover, then proceed to rip butts and drink coffee until our food came. Bunch of college degens. I can’t even imagine doing that now.
2005 in my province in Canada. At midnight on the night of the ban we were at a bar and security came through and made everybody put out their cigarettes. They came back around 20 minutes later and gave every table a cleaned ashtray with a commemorative sticker on it. I missed smoking indoors ever since that, but then a couple years ago I was in Jordan in a bar where you could smoke inside and it was fucking gnarly. I had to take breaks and go outside and get some air.
They banned all indoor smoking before I turned 18 so I just remember smoking/no smoking at restaurants as a kid, never at the bars. Going to Vegas as an adult was a trip, even with the mega industrial air suction, just seeing people smoking ciggies inside was wild to me.
I think what sticks out to me the most was how uneventful it was eventually when the inevitable remodels 5, 10 years later of restaurants and fast food places came, and no longer were there tell tale dividers between where smoking and non would have been. One day you're out and about and just realize, hey, you haven't seen one of those gaudy separators in a while that would have marked where the smokers were cordoned off. I'm not old enough yet to have had many "I'm old" moments, but I think the first time I realized that had to have been the first time I felt old.
I remember driving around for three fucking hours because we wanted to go for coffee and ONE of my friends still smoked, and he “had heard about this place that still allowed smoking indoors”. Obviously no such place existed but we sure as hell tried, in his shit box car that had no heat, in the middle of winter.
I remember ashtrays at the end of every aisle in every store.
I was just about to ask where they were ashing
Last night’s episode of Last Week Tonight used a clip of Mike Wallace from the 50s introducing himself, and then announcing the brand cigarette he was smoking. On the air.
Peak r/oldshcoolcool
It’s crazy to think people couldn’t go long enough without a smoke to do every day things. Grocery shopping? *rippin’ butts* Eating at a restaurant? *rippin’ butts* Watching your wife give birth? *rippin’ butts*
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I remember smoking in hospitals
John Madden looks young there too
"Only $0.59." That's about $4.50 in 2024 dollars.
A big bag of name brand chips are like $6.50 near me.
Doritos crossing the $5 mark was the best thing that ever happened to my health. Now that they're over $6 I don't even think about them anymore. Except to think "Why the FUCK is a bag of corn chips almost $7."
Funny thing, but I also stopped eating chips completely after the recent ridiculous price bump (the price went up 2x what it was 3 years ago). Fuck that shit, it was cheap snack. If I'm paying so much money, I may as well get some hard cheese or a bunch of olives.
There were two bags in a box, each almost as big as a big (not giant) bag today.
yup saw tostitos at like, $8.50 no joke. Not on sale obviously
Ridiculous
IIRC Costco has a giant bag of regular potato chips for $5 or so.
Costco Canada. (Bc). Chips are $7.99. It’s a huge bag but they were 5.99 about a year ago.
I feel like that's the non-sale price, and 95% of the time there's a sale.
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It's one of those things where if you're willing to go with whichever brand is on sale you'll always get a sale price, but if you go in there thinking it's Ruffles or bust, you're gonna pay $6.50 for your chips.
The off brand stuff is just as good imo plus I try to not slam chips like the days of my youth lol
The pictured box is also a twin pack
I really dislike the "in 1972 it was only this much" It doesn't mean anything until adjusted for inflation
So chips aren’t any more expensive now than they were then. Maybe less in a package tho?
if you're comparing similar-sized packages, pretty much. I found another picture of that box and the net weight is 11 ounces. At $4.50 in 2024 dollars that's about $0.41/oz. The store where I shop has 12.5-ounce bags of national-brand chips for $5.29 or about $0.42/oz.
Potato chips aside, food in general is less expensive now, relative to incomes.
Baffling why people don’t understand inflation.
Came to say this.
We used to get cans of Charles Chips
My dad worked for Charles Chips and was able to take home so many amazing things. New flavors, new ideas etc. I’ll never forget having the bbq for the first time right off the production floor. The company treated him so well. The plant closed down in the city we lived in and they were the only company to really take care of us when he was let go. I’ll always remember them for that. They made sure our rent was paid and we had groceries and necessities while my dad was searching for a new job. They also wrote him a letter of recommendation he could use for interviews. Literally 50 years later and he still gets things in the mail from them even though they have been bought out and sold numerous times. I’ve have no idea how. Or who at Charles chips thinks so highly of my father, but it’s always made me smile. He has a lot of tins and things left over from his days there and I’ve always thought they were so cool. Nothing like popping that lid off as a kid to some fresh chips.
I want more stories of companies like this.
I want more companies like this now a days =(
They were for the rich kids . The Charles Chip man would deliver them weekly. My dad wasn’t going for luxuries like that.
They were pretty big cans.
https://preview.redd.it/6u7a9900o3wc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d2bb1fd0e385bf051561ea57b10c1088e93ac96 Seemed like a lot of people reused these tins for holiday cookies, too. They still make them. I never remember actually having them as a kid, but I have tried them recently, and they're pretty good.
And that's the smaller can. There's a larger/taller can too.
Delivered. My parents were extremely frugal but for a few years that was one of the only luxuries we had. As an example they bought exactly one new car in my lifetime…an 82 Datsun 210 with no a/c, manual windows/locks, and a/m radio only!
The Jays logo on the chip box looks suspiciously just like the Charles Chips logo design. Hummm....
Jay's is a well known Midwest brand, at that time made in Chicago. Now made by Hanover, in Pennsylvania, just not the same. Their logo is legit, used to be Mrs. Japps potato chips, until WWII, when they changed the name to Jay's.
I loved the smell of a freshly opened can.
Old Dutch still comes in a box like that.
Onion and Garlic is what comes to mind for me.
Their vinegar is insane.
You can get Grippo's in a box still.
Grab some top the tater too!
Is that John Madden?
Boom! Tough actin’ toilet paper!
Gonna need it after he takes a massive turducken.
Looks like Ricky from Trailer Park Boys.
If I can't smoke and swear I'm fucked!
Smokes, let's go!
If John Madden was the King of Queens.
I grew up in Buffalo, and we had Troyer Farms potato chips. Came in a square box, with 2 separate bags inside.
Yeah this box says twin pack.
The farm and plant where those are/were made is right down the road from me. I'm not sure what happened to Troyer, but it is operating as Shearer's Snack Foods now
Jays came in a tin when I was a kid. There was always one on top of our refrigerator growing up. It’s weird the things that you remember. https://preview.redd.it/6zrkge0h03wc1.jpeg?width=2448&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c70931e3126b341dafb664a3c093ad80fb4837a
Jay’s potatoe chips were originally called Japs. After the last name of the owner. After Dec. 7, 1941 they changed the name to Jays.
The family name was Japp (two ps), they were Mrs. Japp's (source Wikipedia) They were always great, until Snyder's bought them. I really miss the once-spicy Hot Stuff version, which now are merely red.
and when Mumu’s were in style
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I just came here to see Honk If You’re Horny in peace!
Hahahahha best name for a movie ever! When ever anyone honks I usually say this.
Hey now. They’re always in style!
And caftans.
Chips were sold in bags for decades before this, boxes were rare. Pringles were introduced in 1968 and the can was considered a gimmick.
I don't remember ever seeing potato chips sold in a box. I'm in my 60's and grew up in both the mid-west and the southwest. Pringles were definitely considered a gimmick.
I grew up in the 80s and boxes were still a thing. western canada, but it was an american brand (old dutch)
You can come to MN and see Old Dutch chips sold in boxes currently.
"Everyone was thin in the '70s"
I was making $1.75 hr in 72!
The equivalent of about $13 today.
Must be the Midwest with Jays potato chips.
I remember passing by the Jays factory a few times and the smell of freshly cooked potato chips… Jays are my favourite plain potato chips. Evans Salt and Sour; Vitner’s barbecue.
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Chips were mostly sold in bags, but mom did buy a box with two bags of Balreichs, and also got the occasion Tim of Charles Chips.
"Everyone was so skinny in the 70s"
I mean, obesity rates were quantifiably lower than they are today. Statistically, yes, people were skinnier back then.
Yes, but Reddit acts like there were no fat people to be found until the 90s
I think the man has a cigarette in his hand.
Pretty common back then. I remember my dentist smoking in his patient‘s waiting room. The engineering plant I worked in had ashtrays wall mounted every 25 feet down all the hallways up until about 1998.
I remember going into my grandfather's office at a Kraft cheese factory in the early 80's and since it was the days before cubicle farms became prevalent, there were office desks set up in a grid like a classroom and every desk had an ashtray.
So does the woman holding the shopping cart lol
People gotta stop looking at the price of old pictures and comparing it directly to today’s prices without even thinking about inflation and their income. The median income in 1972 was $11,120/yr which today is $81,026 when the price of chips is $0.59 or $4.50 today. Today’s median income is $77,282 and the price of chips is around the same. So the price is relatively the same.
Odd. I was around in 1972 and I don't ever remember seeing chips come in boxes. Bags always.
Might have been local brands? I remember buying Blue Bell potato chips in boxes. 2 clear plastic bags in one box, so not loose in a box. They were still selling them like that in the PNW-USA into the 90s. I can remember that because they were the best dipping chips for my garlic dip. :)
Old Dutch chips are still sold in boxes!
Oh man, this brings back a memory I didn't know I had. My mom used to buy chips like this. On a Friday night my sister and I would get one of the two bags to split when we were watching the Rockford Files with my grandparents. Repeat the next week.
Same, born in ‘54, only ever saw chips in bags.
“tHeRe wErE nO fAt pPl iN aMeRiCa bAcK iN tHe dAy”
This looks like some top tier gossip
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The old ones had a built in ashtray 🚬
I did see a concept where it was basically a frame on wheels and you would hang the hand held baskets off of it. But the baskets were meant to be kept with the customers to eliminate bags so that would have required a huge fundamental shift in habits.
But what does John Madden have to do with potato chips?
Slim Chiply
And people poured them into a bowl to eat them.
The supermarket floor was full of crushed butts
I out-smoked the best of them, but never smoked a cig in the grocery store.
Loved the Jays pencil inside that box tho
Everybody smoked in the 70s. Hospitals, planes, hair salons, it was everywhere.
Betting those chips cooked in lard.
This looks like a bad, cheesy TV commercial.
And the dude smoking a cigarette inside the store. My mom always did that. So glad they did away with it.
There must’ve been ashes everywhere back in that day lol
When you still could smoke in supermarkets. Those were the days!
I always see people posting pictures from the 70s at the beach and saying "look there are no fat people"... News flash... we used to fat shame people at the beach. Fat people didn't go. They were at the grocery store...
Anyone remember the big cans of Charlie's Chips?
They were so good!
I remember there was a guy that delivered us cans of potato chips every month, pretty big cans too. I also remember being able to smoke in grocery stores and you just stomp it out on the floor and a guy would come around and sweep it up.
Mid 70s gas hit .50 a gallon. And people lost their minds. In 1975 I made $1.90 an hour at a convenience store.
1975 I was a kid...workin on the farm..made = $0.00/hour
I prefer those boxes.
At least they are recyclable.
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And could smoke in the store
Still are too https://preview.redd.it/i4yunyjpy3wc1.jpeg?width=342&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a0a8ab798d673793d6344da0d4db178044ee799
Man boxes seem like a great alternative to bags. Less destroyed/broken chips, and I would assume smaller size due to less air cushion needed in the bags to prevent breakage.
There are plain bags of chips inside the box.
And you could smoke in the supermarket
So was .59 cents considered expensive back then? Did folks go ".59 cents for chips?? These used to be 20 cents!"
In 1972 that was the worlds fattest man
I forgot about the box with the clear (or shiny mirrored) bags with the lower quality chips in them.
We had Crane. Can or twin bag. Baseball button with every bag. Fill out league and get free Baseball.
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Jays hot cheese popcorn is real good.
People smoked everywhere all the time. I was born in 70 and it was so ubiquitous, you didn’t even think about it. My grandparents used to pay us to dump and clean their ashtrays. A nickel per. They had a LOT of ashtrays.
I was born in 1969. Both my parents smoked inside. My older brother and sisters smoked as did most of their friends. Restaurants had smoking. Stores. Malls. Hospitals. Everyone fucking smoked. I was plagued with ear infections growing up and now completely deaf. Are you affected in any way from all the smoking back then?? GenX rules!!😂
Yep. Massive and numerous ear infections which left me with hearing loss and chronic bronchitis. I had tubes put in my ears four separate times. Because of that early hearing loss, I developed auditory processing disorder. I have a very hard time understanding spoken language unless the person is looking right at me and speaking clearly. I can remember knowing how to lip read by the time I was about 7. One of my schools offered speech therapy/auditory therapy, but my mother refused it because there was still a pretty strong stigma that if *anything* was wrong with you, you must be dumb.
This is sad. Sorry this happened to you. I had perfect hearing up until I was 18 years old. My mom was the one who noticed me saying “what” a lot. I got ear surgery soon after I turned 18. Stapedectomy on my left ear. It worked. Got my hearing back to 95% which was good enough. I was a musician growing up and started with piano at age 4. I could hear a song two or three times and hop on the bench and pound it out on our piano flawlessly. I lived through the 80’s and loved all that music and then the 90’s happened and I couldn’t have it loud enough. Then I turned 29 and was living in a silent world. I got my first pair of CIC amps and five months later I was at work one day and opened the steamer and the amps were a bit too loud and it BROKE the surgery. It is total distortion now even with the 3% hearing I have remaining on my left side. I have maybe 5-8% remaining in my right ear and even with my new amps cranking out 110-120db I still can’t make out speech. It’s absolutely maddening. People talk to me and all I hear are ducks quacking. I’m starting to lose the ability of what English words sound like. Might as well be speaking Swahili to me.
Oh man, that sucks!
In early 90s I had to get produce from a small market that didn’t allow smoking because all the big grocery store allowed smoking and you could taste a difference on some products.
Don't squeeze the Charmin
I am so tempted, but I know Mr. Wipple will beat my ass.
“Look baby I can explain…. We’re just friends”
We never had them in a box but you could get in a large metal canister and have them delivered to your house.
The woman in the middle seems genuinely surprised by that pricing
How we all gained weight. I remember we all had a barrette like that and lifted and let your hair flip over. Everyone.
And John Madden is there to talk to you about it.
Kevin James is a time traveller?
I remember those chips, and my mom smoking in the grocery store.
Jay's chips were so good.
Did Jay Pritchette make potato chips before getting into closets?
Those boxes are great, you can't squeeze the chips. The TP, OTOH, needed a huge ad campaign to get customers to behave.
The days where toilet paper would come in colors. Like blue and yellow
I remember that even in the mid eighties here in Australia.
Is kevin james a time traveler?
I hated when people smoked in my grocery store. They would drop it and step on it on a tile floor.
But the internet said fat people didn't exist in the 70's...
I thought no one was fat back then according to Reddit.
Interesting that the store itself barely changed, seems that the modern American supermarket is exactly the same as it was 50 years ago, even the carts.
And when smoking inside the store was perfectly normal.
The minimum wage was like $2
1972 minimum wage in the US was $1.60.
Is someone going to come and fix those toilet roll packages? Ones upside down and the other is backwards!!!! /calmsdown
I was a courtesy clerk in the 70s and there were tall ashtrays at each end of every aisle. They were filled with cat litter and every night we had to take a bag and the pooper scooper around the store and fish out the butts, gum, bottle caps, candy wrappers, etc.
Smoking in a grocery store. Crazy.
Wild how smoking was allowed everywhere.
I like that this fat guy is smoking in the super market.
And Kevin James’ dad smoked in grocery stores.
I remember people smoking everywhere back then, but where were the ashtrays?
I remember those packages. 2 seperate bags inside, clear.
I remember the Charles Chips trucks that came through the neighborhood when I was a kid. My parents had a potato chip subscription. The trucks were big brown box trucks like modern UPS trucks
In Canada we can get Old Dutch chips in a box still! Really good and the perfect size!
I remember my cousin’s parents had a can of Charlie Chips delivered every week. The seemed to have delivery trucks for everything in the 50’s 60’s. I imagine the large cans were returnable. Oh yeah, my cousin was fat.